Kobalt

Job Title: Royalty Coordinator Department: Royalties, Statements & Tracking Reporting To: Manager, Statement Operations Location: London Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role You will play a pivotal role in our newly restructured and growing Royalties team. Leveraging your strong problem-solving and numerical skills, you'll be responsible for managing "unhappy-path" royalty scenarios to ensure our clients are paid accurately and promptly. In addition, you will help maintain Kobalt’s reputation for best-in-class service by administering bespoke contractual obligations and contributing to the continuous improvement of our royalty processes. Success in this role requires excellent organisational and prioritisation abilities, alongside a proven capacity to quickly adapt to new and exciting challenges. Working within a close-knit team, you’ll also provide analytical reporting to various stakeholders across the business. Reporting to the...

The Role We are looking for an Assistant Manager to join Kobalt’s Contract Administration team in Nashville. The team plays a critical role in interpreting, onboarding, and administering client agreements, ensuring contractual terms are accurately reflected across Kobalt’s systems and downstream operations. This is a hands-on role suited to a proactive and detail-driven administrator with strong communication skills and a solid understanding of music publishing agreements. You’ll be responsible for the accurate ingestion of contractual terms and copyrights, while also supporting the wider team through guidance, documentation, and process improvement. Accuracy, consistency, and sound judgement are essential, as the work directly impacts client reporting, royalty processing, and claims made on behalf of our writers and publishers. What You’ll Do Interpret and onboard key commercial and contractual terms from long-form publishing agreements into Kobalt’s internal systems....

Job Title: Coordinator, Global Digital Operations Department: Global Digital Business Reporting To: Matt Rose Location: New York, United States Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role As Kobalt’s Global Digital Business team continues to evolve and grow, we are negotiating increasingly sophisticated deals, managing a heightened volume of partnerships, and adapting to new markets and products that are coming to market across the world. The Coordinator, Global Digital Operations will drive optimization and claiming across a diverse range of User-Generated Content (UGC) partnerships (including YouTube, Meta, and TikTok) while acting as the organizational backbone of the Global Digital Operations team. Beyond tracking key deliverables and managing workflows throughout the partnership lifecycle, you will proactively design and implement better systems to maximize our operational efficiency. What You’ll Do You coordinate digital rights operations,...

Job Title: Senior Manager, Global Digital Business Department: Global Digital Business Reporting To: Cody Schnieders, Vice President Global Digital Partnerships & Global Media Location: Los Angeles, United States Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office Full-time | Permanent The Role As Sr. Manager, Global Digital Business, you'll play a key part in managing emerging digital deals, working closely with senior licensing negotiators, and contributing strategic insights to our high-value partnerships. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact by overseeing the renewal of existing deals and negotiating new ones with innovative digital platforms. To be successful in the role, you’ll need to adapt to a constantly changing digital landscape, and think on your feet in order to respond to new problems and opportunities as they arise. Additionally, you will need to navigate a variety of negotiating styles from different licensees, requiring strong...

The Role We are looking for a highly detail-oriented and proactive Intern to join our Contract Administration team. Based in Nashville, this role supports the onboarding, interpretation, and administration of our client agreements, a crucial step in ensuring we deliver accurate, timely royalty collections and reporting to our creators. You’ll play an essential part in maintaining the integrity of our publishing agreements within Kobalt’s bespoke operational systems and supporting ongoing contract workflows. This is an excellent opportunity for someone early in their career who enjoys solving technical challenges, has a curious mindset, and thrives in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment. What You’ll Do Interpret and input key terms from publishing agreements, including Schedule 1s, into our proprietary operations system Assist in maintaining accurate records, tracking logs, and system documentation Provide general administrative support to the broader Contract...

The Role Kobalt is looking for a Senior Manager of Brand & Digital Marketing who will be the primary execution engine for two equally critical mandates: execute digital marketing campaigns to drive streaming growth and cultural relevance for a diverse, world-class catalog, and serve as the creative steward of the Kobalt brand across every outward-facing touchpoint. The right person will bring proven digital marketing expertise, strong creative instincts and the resourcefulness to produce high-impact work through platform fluency and cultural timing. Digital Marketing - Paid & Organic Design and execute targeted campaigns across DSPs and socials to drive streams, playlist adds and audience growth for prioritized catalog titles. Live inside internet culture as a professional discipline; awareness of culture moments and how to insert a song authentically into that conversation. Monitor sync placements, TV and film premieres, brand partnerships, client anniversaries...

The Role We are looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Staff Accountant to join our Finance team in New York. This role plays an important part in supporting the accuracy and transparency of Kobalt’s financial reporting and operational processes. You’ll be involved in month-end close activities, reconciliations, and supporting audits, while working closely with the Senior Accountant and wider Finance team. This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong accounting foundation who is looking to develop their skills in a fast-paced, international music company. You’ll gain exposure to core accounting processes and contribute to continuous improvements as you build your experience within the team. What You’ll Do Support the month-end close process for the Corporate business unit, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of key deliverables. Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and assist in resolving discrepancies. Partner with teams such as FP&A and P&C to support...

The Role Kobalt Music Publishing is hiring a Director, Contract Administration to lead our global Contract Administration team. This role requires strong leadership, people management, and communication skills, as well as a strategic mindset to drive process improvements and scalability. Reporting to the VP, Core Administration Services, you will oversee the end-to-end onboarding, ensuring contracts and works are accurately ingested—whether through manual entry or large data set formats such as CWR v2.2, CWR v2.1, catalogue shipment, CIF, and .csv. You will also play a key role in workload management, capacity tracking, and optimizing team resources, providing critical insights to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. The successful candidate is a proactive and adaptable leader with experience managing high-performing teams through change with evolving priorities. You are a natural communicator, a problem solver, and a strategic thinker who thrives in fast-paced...

The Role Kobalt is seeking a senior, market facing executive to lead the Creative Synch team in New York and across the U.S. East Coast. This role sits at the intersection of creative vision and commercial execution, responsible for driving synch revenue while positioning Kobalt as a best-in-class partner in the advertising space. Reporting to the SVP, Global Creative Synch, the VP will serve as a strategic leader within the U.S. advertising market, owning key client relationships, clearing deals, and collaborating cross-functionally to maximize opportunities across Kobalt’s global publishing catalogue. This is a senior leadership role for someone with deep industry relationships, sharp commercial instincts, and a track record of closing meaningful, market-shaping deals. What You’ll Do Creative Pitching & Deal Execution: Handle creative pitching of the Kobalt Music Publishing catalogue across advertising. Lead high-level creative pitching initiatives, ensuring Kobalt’s...